The 18th Indiana Infantry Regiment lost 5 officers and 68 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 130 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
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Organized at Indianapolis, Ind. |
August 16 |
Mustered in |
August 17 |
Left State for St. Louis, Mo. |
September |
March to relief of Colonel Mulligan at Lexington, Mo. Attached to Fremont's Army of the West and Dept. of Missouri |
September 19 |
Action at Glasgow Mountain |
September 22-October 15 |
Fremont's advance on Springfield, Mo. |
November |
March to Otterville, Mo. |
December 15-19 |
Expedition to Milford |
December 18 |
Action at Shawnee Mound or Milford on the Blackwater, and capture of 1,300 prisoners |
1862 |
January |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Southwest Missouri |
January 25-February 14 |
Advance on Springfield, Mo. |
February |
Pursuit of Price to Cassville, Ark. |
March 6-8 |
Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. |
March |
At Sulphur Rock |
May |
Attached to 1st Division, Army of Southwest Missouri |
May 25-July 14 |
March to Batesville, then to Helena, Ark. |
July |
Duty at Helena attached to District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri |
October |
Ordered to Pilot Knob, Mo., and operations in Southeast Missouri attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri |
1863 |
March 5 |
Moved to Helena, Ark. then to Milliken's Bend, La. Attached to 1st Brigade, 14th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee |
April 25-30 |
Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf |
May 1 |
Battle of Port Gibson |
May 16 |
Battle of Champion's Hill |
May 17 |
Big Black River Bridge |
May 18-July 4 |
Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. |
May 19 and 22 |
Assaults on Vicksburg |
July 4-10 |
Advance on Jackson, Miss. attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee |
July 10-17 |
Siege of Jackson |
July-August |
Duty at Vicksburg |
August 20 |
Ordered to New Orleans, La. |
August -
September |
Duty at Carrollton, Brashear City and Berwick attached to Dept. of the Gulf |
October 3-November 8 |
Western Louisiana Campaign |
November 8 |
Moved to New Orleans |
November 12 |
To Texas |
November 17 |
Capture of Mustang Island |
November 27-30 |
Fort Esperanza |
December |
Duty at Mustang Island and Indianola |
1864 |
January 1 |
Regiment reenlisted |
March 8-May 3 |
Near Baton Rouge, La. |
June 4 |
Veteran furlough and duty in Indiana |
July 16 |
Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va. and attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps |
August 5 |
To Washington, D.C. |
August 10-19 |
March to Shenandoah Valley. Attached to 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah Middle Military Division |
August to November |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October |
Duty in the Shenandoah Valley |
December |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps |
1865 |
January 6-20 |
Moved to Baltimore, Md., thence to Savannah, Ga. and attached to 1st Brigade, Grover's Division, District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. of the South |
May 3 |
At Augusta, Ga. |
June 7 |
Provost duty in Southern Georgia |
August 28 |
Mustered out |
